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      All of Petrogradka: Art Nouveau, the Karpovka and the Botanical Garden

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 7 km🍽 3📍 11 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The whole Petrogradskaya Side: mansions, a mosque, Art Nouveau houses and dinner at Chekhov.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
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      1. 1
        🧺 Sytny Market
        Сытнинская пл., 5
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        Breakfast
        🍴 The city's oldest market, in a building of 1913: meat, dairy and fruit rows, a café on the second floor. What to order: chicken Kyiv at the “180°” (Kotletnaya) stall, plov with flatbread at Plovnaya, farm cheeses and curd cheese.
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      3. 2
        🖼 Kshesinskaya Mansion
        ул. Куйбышева, 2–4
        🎟 ticket
        Museum of Political History of Russia
        Kshesinskaya’s mansion
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        Kshesinskaya Mansion
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kshesinskaya Mansion
        © Potekhin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The mansion was built in 1904–1906 for the ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska to a design by Alexander von Hohen.
        • The facades combine red and grey granite, brick and majolica — a textbook example of Northern Art Nouveau.
        • In spring 1917 the Bolsheviks settled here: Lenin worked in the mansion from 3 (16) April to 4 (17) July.
        • Kschessinska filed an eviction suit, naming among the defendants the “candidate of law V. I. Ulyanov”; the judge ordered the party organisations evicted.
        • In 1920 the ballerina emigrated to France.
        • In 1957 the mansion was joined to the neighbouring Brandt mansion for the Museum of the Revolution.
        • Since 1991 it has housed the Museum of Political History of Russia.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Cathedral Mosque
        Кронверкский пр., 7
        A large grey granite mosque with two minarets opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress.
        The Cathedral Mosque
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        Cathedral Mosque
        © Concierge.2C · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Cathedral Mosque
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Cathedral Mosque
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The mosque was founded on 3 February 1910 in the presence of Emir of Bukhara Sayyid Abdul-Ahad Khan, who gave the money to buy the plot.
        • The project's author is Nikolay Vasilyev; 45 designs took part in the 1908 competition.
        • The artist L. Maksimov travelled to Samarkand to copy the ornaments of the Shah-i-Zinda and Gur-e-Amir mosques.
        • The main dome rises 39 m and the minarets 48 m; the mosque holds 5,000 people.
        • In 1915, to raise money for its completion, the mosque was opened for paid viewing.
        • The mosaics for the portal, dome and minarets were made by craftsmen in the village of Kikerino near Gatchina.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Lidval House
        Каменноостровский пр., 1–3
        An apartment building with a ceremonial courtyard where every window and facade detail is different — a model of Northern Art Nouveau.
        Lidval House
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        Lidval House
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1899–1904 — Fyodor Lidval's first independent work, commissioned by his mother Ida Lidval.
        • The north wing served as the Lidval family's own mansion.
        • Four buildings of different heights surround a cour d'honneur, separated from the avenue by a fence on posts of red Finnish granite.
        • The facades carry reliefs of birds, animals and plants, and the year the building was finished is carved above the central portal.
        • The plot is trapezoid, yet Lidval managed without rooms with acute and obtuse angles.
        • In 1909 the painter Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin lived in the house, and in 1904 the family of General Kuropatkin.
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      9. 5
        🍽 Suliko
        Каменноостровский пр., 14
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        Lunch
        🍴 A Georgian restaurant with a homely atmosphere at the start of Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, five minutes from Gorkovskaya metro. What to order: Adjarian khachapuri, khinkali (Georgian dumplings) with lamb, walnut kharcho, chkmeruli.
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      11. 6
        🏛 House with Towers
        пл. Льва Толстого
        An apartment building with two tall towers on the corner of Kamennoostrovsky — the architectural dominant of the square.
        The house with towers
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        House with Towers
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Construction of the House with Towers was completed in 1915; the architectural part was designed by Andrey Belogrud.
        • The developer was the engineer Konstantin Rosenstein, and he built this house for himself.
        • The floors are held by multi-span I-beams — an invention of Rosenstein himself.
        • In 1996 the Andrey Mironov Russian Entreprise Theatre opened in the house.
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      13. 7
        🏛 House of the Emir of Bukhara
        Каменноостровский пр., 44Б
        An apartment building of 1913–1914 with facades in the spirit of Florentine palazzos, built for the Emir of Bukhara (designed by Stepan Krichinsky).
        The Emir’s house
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        House of the Emir of Bukhara
        © Тулип · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1913–1914 on commission from the Emir of Bukhara for his son Sayyid Alim Khan; in fact, it is an apartment building.
        • The architect is Stepan Krichinsky, who also took part in building the Cathedral Mosque; the emir awarded him the Order of Noble Bukhara.
        • The facades in the spirit of Florentine palazzos are clad in dolomite marble from the Shishim deposit in the Urals.
        • Because of the First World War the balustrade was dropped, and some of the columns were made of wood instead of marble.
        • Krichinsky himself lived here, in flat No. 4, until 1923.
        • In 1993 the film “Kommunalka” was shot in the house; local legend says an underground passage leads from here to the mosque.
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      15. 8
        🚶 Karpovka Embankment
        A narrow river with granite embankments and trees, winding through the Petrogradskaya Side.
        The Karpovka
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        Karpovka Embankment
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Karpovka is an arm of the Neva 3 km long and about 20 m wide, between Petrogradsky and Aptekarsky islands.
        • The name is a corruption of the Finnish Korpijoki, translated both as “forest” and as “crow” river.
        • The banks of the Karpovka were faced with granite only in the 1960s–70s.
        • No. 13 is the first residential building of the Leningrad Soviet (1932–1935, architects Levinson and Fomin), a model of Constructivism.
        • In 2021 the sculpture “Sad Angel” appeared by the Medical University, in memory of medics who died of coronavirus.
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      17. 9
        🌳 Peter the Great Botanical Garden
        ул. Профессора Попова, 2
        🚪 entrance from Professora Popova Street
        🎟 ticket · The park and the greenhouses need separate tickets; the greenhouses are visited with a guide
        The greenhouses are open all year round
        The greenhouses
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        Peter the Great Botanical Garden
        © Anastasiya Lvova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Peter the Great Botanical Garden
        © Afanasovich · CC BY 4.0
        • The garden grew out of Peter I's Apothecary Garden, already mentioned in the 1713 census; the documents on its founding burned in 1737.
        • Under Catherine II “Tungus tea” was grown here — meadowsweet, thought to be a sweat-inducing remedy for colds.
        • The garden received Peter the Great's name in 1913, for its 200th anniversary.
        • The greenhouse complex has 28 greenhouses with a total area of about 1 ha, and the route through them is about a kilometre long.
        • Two greenhouse quadrangles were built in 1823–1826 so that they can be walked round without going outdoors.
        • During the siege 50 incendiary bombs and 85 shells hit the greenhouses.
        • The Botanical Museum, founded in 1823, holds over 80,000 specimens.
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      19. 10
        🏛 St John's Convent (Ioannovsky Monastery)
        наб. Карповки, 45
        A red-brick convent with Byzantine-style domes; the crypt holds the tomb of John of Kronstadt.
        The convent
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        St John's Convent (Ioannovsky Monastery)
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The convent was founded by John of Kronstadt and named after his patron, St John of Rila.
        • The neo-Byzantine building was designed by the diocesan architect Nikolay Nikonov; the foundation was laid in September 1900.
        • The main church was consecrated on 17 November 1902 with Father John taking part.
        • In December 1908 John of Kronstadt was buried here in a white marble tomb in the basement church.
        • In 1926 the entrance to the crypt was walled up and the relics hidden under a concreted floor — they have never been found.
        • In 1989 the convent was returned to the Church as a metochion of the Pühtitsa Convent.
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      21. 11
        🍽 Chekhov
        Петропавловская ул., 4
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        Dinner
        🍴 Russian cuisine in the interior of an early-20th-century dacha: sideboards, books, lampshades; near the Karpovka and Petrogradskaya metro. What to order: borscht, beef stroganoff, pirozhki, crab cutlets.

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